Located on the shores of Adventureland at Disneyland Park, The Tropical Hideaway will be the destination for extraordinary worldly eats when it opens. Menu items include warm steamed bao buns, chilled ramen salad, Sweet Pineapple Lumpia, Dole Whip and more. Disneyland Park is located in Anaheim, Calif. (Joshua Sudock/Disneyland Resort)

People will sit on a rustic, aged-looking outdoor deck that looks like it just extended over from the Jungle Cruise. After dark, tiki torches will light the area with a flickering glow. The new venue sits in the space between the Enchanted Tiki Room and the Jungle Cruise that once held a Polynesian themed restaurant called the Tahitian Terrace, and later was Aladdin’s Oasis.

After years of performing with the bird mobile chorus of Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room, Rosita spread her wings and took flight toward a solo career. Guests will now find her on the river’s edge at The Tropical Hideaway Ð the soon-to-open destination for extraordinary worldly eats at Adventureland at Disneyland. (Joshua Sudock/Disneyland Resort)

Located on the shores of Adventureland at Disneyland Park, The Tropical Hideaway will be the destination for extraordinary worldly eats when it opens. Menu items include warm steamed bao buns, chilled ramen salad, Sweet Pineapple Lumpia, Dole Whip and more. Disneyland Park is located in Anaheim, Calif. (Joshua Sudock/Disneyland Resort)

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The Tropical Hideaway under construction in Adventureland at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA, on Monday, Oct 29, 2018. The new restaurant, at the former location of Aladdin’s Oasis, will feature three different varieties of bao: Spiced Vegetable Bao, Kaffir Lime Chicken Bao, and Bulgogi Beef Bao. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Some of the treats that will be for sale at the new Tropical Hideaway dining deck when it opens in Disneyland’s Adventureland in 2018. (Photo courtesy of Disney)

Details of the new Tropical Hideaway Eatery in Adventureland at Disneyland. (Courtesy of the Disney Parks blog Dec. 2018)

Details of the new Tropical Hideaway eatery at Adventureland in Disneyland slated to open in December 2018. (Courtesy of the Disney Parks blog)

Details of the Tropical Hideaway eatery at Adventureland in Disneyland slated to open in December 2018. (Courtesy of the Disney Parks blog)

Details of the Tropical Hideaway eatery in Adventureland in Disneyland slated to open in Dec. 2018. (Courtesy of the Disney Parks blog)

Concept art of the new Rosita animatronic bird that Disneyland will feature at its new Tropical Hideaway eatery in Adventureland. Courtesy of Disney.

Located on the shores of Adventureland at Disneyland Park, The Tropical Hideaway will be the destination for extraordinary worldly eats when it opens. Menu items include warm steamed bao buns, chilled ramen salad, Sweet Pineapple Lumpia, Dole Whip and more. Disneyland Park is located in Anaheim, Calif. (Joshua Sudock/Disneyland Resort)

“Travelers can reach The Tropical Hideaway across its main bridge, through Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room or along “Skipper’s Walk,” a pathway leading from the Jungle Cruise loading dock,” according to a Dec. 11 post on the Disney Parks blog. “Colorful wildlife can also be found at the Hideaway. The stars of the Enchanted Tiki Room live in small birdhouses that dot the roof line, each personally labeled. Can you spot them? One cockatoo who has packed up her bags and spreading her wings is Rosita. As she waits on the dock for her boat to arrive, this friendly bird makes small talk with visitors!”

“Disney did what they do better than anyone else — build something brand new that looks like it’s been there forever, complete with history and story elements which will have fans and visitors wondering if they’ve been there before,” said Todd Regan, who is better known running the Micechat.com blog under the pen name of Dusty Sage. “The area is one part Tiki Room, one part Jungle Cruise and helps tie various story elements of Adventureland together.”

Marla Jo Fisher was a workaholic hard news reporter before she adopted two children from foster care at age 46, picked up a scruffy dog along the way and somehow managed to keep them all alive, at least so far. She now writes the Frumpy Middle-Age Mom humor column that appears in the Orange County Register weekly. Due to her status as the cheapest person alive, she also writes about deals and bargains for the Register, including her Cheapo Travel column which also runs in newspapers around the country. When she's not having a nervous breakdown, she's usually traveling somewhere cheaply and writing about it.